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Assad allies, including Iranians, prepare ground attack in Syria

Reuters reporting, Hundreds of Iranian troops have arrived in Syria in the last 10 days and will soon join government forces and their Lebanese Hezbollah allies in a major ground offensive backed by Russian air strikes, two Lebanese sources told Reuters. This is quickly escalating.. Remember when people thought the world would end September 28? … Read moreAssad allies, including Iranians, prepare ground attack in Syria

ISIS cracks down on school playgrounds to enforce gender separation of parents – report

Reporting from RT:  The Islamic State morality police Hesbah targeted playgrounds in the city of Mayadin in the eastern Deir ez-Zor province, local sources told the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Several men and women were arrested by ISIS gunmen “for not abiding by Islamic rules on dress.” A similar crackdown on playgrounds was … Read moreISIS cracks down on school playgrounds to enforce gender separation of parents – report

BATTLE OF THE NATIONS: PUTIN VS OBAMA AT THE UN OVER SYRIA // World leaders including Barack Obama, Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin, Raul Castro and Robert Mugabe speak at 70th UN General Assembly in New York

BATTLE OF THE NATIONS: PUTIN VS OBAMA AT THE UN OVER SYRIA // World leaders including Barack Obama, Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin, Raul Castro and Robert Mugabe speak at 70th UN General Assembly in New York

The ongoing civil war in Syria has led to the first-ever withdrawal from the Svalbard “doomsday” Global Seed Vault, a giant storage unit for plant seeds that’s tucked into the side of a frigid mountain in Norway.

MORE FROM NBC NEWS: Syria’s civil war has forced scientists to request the first-ever withdrawal of seeds from a Doomsday vault built in the Arctic to safeguard the world’s food supplies, officials said Friday. Experts working to conserve and grow cereals with strong resistance to drought and warmer global temperatures can no longer rely on … Read moreThe ongoing civil war in Syria has led to the first-ever withdrawal from the Svalbard “doomsday” Global Seed Vault, a giant storage unit for plant seeds that’s tucked into the side of a frigid mountain in Norway.

Heartbreak and shock over drowned Syrian boy attempting to escape his country’s horror 

Heartbreak and shock over drowned Syrian boy attempting to escape his country’s horror     The headline of the Drudge Report is shocking. Drudge published the shocking photo of a shocking cover story from the UK INDEPENDENT … The image shows a Syrian boy, drowned and dead face down..  After the image was published, it has … Read moreHeartbreak and shock over drowned Syrian boy attempting to escape his country’s horror 

Heartbreak and shock over drowned Syrian boy attempting to escape his country’s horror 

   The headline of the Drudge Report is shocking. Drudge published the shocking photo of a shocking cover story from the UK INDEPENDENT … The image shows a Syrian boy, drowned and dead face down..  After the image was published, it has been shared around the word millions of times over.. He was three. His … Read moreHeartbreak and shock over drowned Syrian boy attempting to escape his country’s horror 

Living in a Box, Eating Weeds: Syria’s Children on the Edge

A pretty intense article on the latest situation in Syria. I don’t offer this as a way of arguing for or against American intervention–that’s complicated–but at a testament to how horrid humans can be to each other .. Children seem to be particularly hard hit in Syria. And that’s emotionally disturbing for me personally .. … Read moreLiving in a Box, Eating Weeds: Syria’s Children on the Edge